From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Publishing the Community Manuals |
Date: | 2003-12-22 15:43:52 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0312220842070.30111-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >DOSSIER already does this, though they don't donate to our advocacy (the Linux
> >Fund, I think). http://www.ptf.com/dossier/
> >
> >I doubt the market is large enough to support competition.
> >
> >
> >
> Well there are a couple of things that we can do differently that may
> change that:
>
> 1. We would assign ISBN's allowing any and all bookstores to order them.
> 2. We can put them in distribution through Baker and Taylor
> 3. We can print on demand... in as little as 25 copies which makes it
> very easy
> to handle updates to the docs.
Any chance of a subscription service? It would be quite nice to be able
to have a standing order of the latest release docs (major points, 7.2,
7.3, 7.4 etc...) and a variable order of the latest development docs
(every 3 months or something).
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